Borders & Neighbors

Vatican City is the smallest sovereign state in the world, surrounded entirely by the city of Rome.

Lesotho is completely surrounded by South Africa, making it one of the world's few enclave nations.

San Marino has endured as an independent republic while remaining completely enclosed within Italy.

Andorra sits high in the Pyrenees with just two neighboring countries, France and Spain.

India shares borders with Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar in territory it administers; its territorial claims also…

Nepal is landlocked in the Himalayas, bordered only by China to the north and India on three sides.

Bhutan sits in the Himalayas with only two neighboring countries, India and China.

Kazakhstan is the largest landlocked country. Its Caspian Sea shore is a coastline on an inland body of water, not an ocean coast.

Mongolia is wedged between just two neighbors, Russia and China, with no other land borders.

Switzerland stays neutral in global conflicts while bordering five countries across the Alps.

Panama forms the land link between North and South America, bordering Colombia and Costa Rica.

Egypt's location links Africa and the Middle East, with borders including Israel, Libya, and Sudan.

Turkey straddles Europe and Asia and borders eight countries, including Greece to the west.

Australia has no land borders at all; its closest neighbor, Papua New Guinea, sits across the Torres Strait.

Canada borders the United States and, under the 2022 agreement, the Kingdom of Denmark on Tartupaluk (Hans Island).

Denmark's mainland touches only Germany by land, with coastline forming the rest of its border.

Russia's vast territory gives it land borders with fourteen countries across Europe and Asia.

China borders fourteen countries, tying Russia for the most land neighbors of any nation.

Brazil's size means it borders nearly every other South American nation, with Chile and Ecuador as the exceptions.

The border between the United States and Canada is the longest international border in the world.

Chile's long, narrow shape runs along the Andes, which form its natural border with Argentina.

North Korea's border with the South is guarded by the Demilitarized Zone, one of the most fortified strips on Earth.

South Korea shares its only land border with North Korea across the heavily fortified DMZ.

Metropolitan France borders eight countries. French Guiana adds borders with Brazil and Suriname, so mainland and worldwide counts differ.

Germany's central location gives it borders with nine countries, one of the highest totals in Europe.

Poland's borders have shifted repeatedly through history and today touch seven neighboring countries.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo borders nine countries, more than any other nation in Africa.

Tanzania borders eight countries and shares Lake Victoria's waters with neighboring Kenya and Uganda.

Portugal's sole land border, with Spain, has remained largely unchanged since the Middle Ages.

Bangladesh is nearly encircled by India, with Myanmar forming the remainder of its land border.